From 94ecdef8ac7855e7a44efd7890c7e8f8d5819397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:30:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Micro-optimize pop_lsb() for 64bit case

On Intel, perhaps due to 'lea' instruction this way of
zeroing the lsb of *b seems faster than a shift+negate.

On perft (where any speed difference is magnified) I
got a 6% speed up on my Intel i5 64bit.

Suggested by Hongzhi Cheng.

No functional change.
---
 src/bitboard.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/bitboard.h b/src/bitboard.h
index b99cc259..35904377 100644
--- a/src/bitboard.h
+++ b/src/bitboard.h
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ FORCE_INLINE Square msb(Bitboard b) {
 
 FORCE_INLINE Square pop_lsb(Bitboard* b) {
   const Square s = lsb(*b);
-  *b &= ~(1ULL << s);
+  *b &= *b - 1;
   return s;
 }
 
-- 
2.39.2